A MASSIVE ROUND ALTAR BEGINS ITS JOURNEY TO A MUSEUM
Although this altar has not been exported, it was moved with that intention. A gang of men pulled it into a clearing
toprepare
itfortransport.
Oxteams,
traveling
by night to avoid the intense heat of the day, hauled all the crated monuments from camp to the river. There men loaded
thestones
onrafts
which
floated
them
down
to the seaport, Alvaro Obreg6n. Eight of the 16 major sculptures which the expedition took from Piedras Negras went
onloan
totheUniversity
ofPennsylvania
Museum; the others to the National Museum of Guatemala.